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The Wild Girls | 
 enlarge | Author: Pat Murphy
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 429466
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 067006226X
EAN: 9780670062263
ASIN: 067006226X
Publication Date: October 18, 2007
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Product Description
It is the early 1970s. Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable when her family moves from Connecticut to California. Then she meets a most unusual girl. Sarah prefers to be called Fox, and lives with her author dad in a rundown house in the middle of the woods. The two girls start writing their own stories together, and when one wins first place in a student contest, they find themselves recruited for a summer writing class taught by the equally unusual Verla Volante. The Wild Girls is about friendship, the power of story, and how coming of age means finding your own answersrather than simply taking adults on faith.
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Great tool for teaching writing in Middle School! July 22, 2008
Emily J. Griffin (Atlanta, GA)
I will be using this novel as a guide to Narrative Writing in my classroom this coming school year. I am thrilled and I think the kids will be too! Can't wait to start Verla's lessons!
Great book for girls discovering themselves June 12, 2008
teach and learn
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Wild Girls is a great book for girls who sometimes feel different and out of place. the girls in this book discover that many people their age are going through the same feelings. With the help of a writing teacher who inspires them and builds their confidence, they discover their self confidence, and soar to new heights of achievement.
Great book for young writers! May 4, 2008
S. Mock (Round Rock, TX)
I borrowed the audiobook from our local library for a road trip. After listening intently to the CDs, both my 12- and 14-year-old daughters begged me for a paper version. They love it.
Made me remember why i fell in love with writing March 24, 2008
Lunacat141 (Travelers Rest, SC USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i just say i loved this book, which i didnt really expect, because i'm typically not a fan of "coming of age" novels. after reading the mostly stinky Young Adult books that won awards, or were given star reviews by School Library Journal, i have to wonder why this little gem was ignored.
Its characters are very relistic, and it instills a love, or at least an interst in writting in its readers. i loved the writing assignments that they girls were given in their class. i also loved how during the course of the book, both girls learned to see the world for what it is; to see their parents as people and not just parents.
 Great Coming-of-Age Story March 19, 2008
Sunny @ the Library (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Joan is not a Wild Girl when she moves from Connecticut to California. She's a very normal sort of 1970s girl who generally does what is expected her. Then, wandering in the lawns and woods behind her new home, she meets Fox, who is a very Wild Girl. Fascinated by Fox and her biker-looking father, Joan names herself Newt, and together, in the woods, she and Fox become the Wild Girls. One of the Wild Girls' favorite activities is making up stories, and when one rather unconventional story (and a very unusual public reading) gets them accepted into a writing workshop in Berkley, the girls' fiction will take them places inside themselves, each other, and ever their families.
The plot of Wild Girls may not sound very exciting, now that I look at it, but in this case the greatness is in the details. The relationship of Fox and Newt in the woods, versus in school. The way the Wild Girls persona allows them to create a mask -- and explore more ideas than they normally might. The meticulously documented journey of self-discovery. Watching Newt's mother move from a cardboard mom-figure to a real person in her daughter's eyes. The exploration of female relationships... Oh, I could go on! It was just so satisfying!
"A sweet, compelling, coming-of-age story" sounds like a boring way to sum it up, but I'll have to leave it there. I want you to discover how Wild Girls ripens all by yourself! Great for girl readers (this is really not a boy's book) in that difficult cusp now known as "tweendom" and a GREAT choice for the budding writer in your life.
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